Is it me or is modern Rock music getting worse?
 

It is in my perosonal opinion that rock and metal is indeed going down the plug hole with the likes of slipknot and kidrock pinching everyone elses ideas.

Slipknot waer masks awfully like kiss's makeup kid rock stealing sweethome alabama

Where are the days when music had feeling passion and melody unlike many of todays thrash kings?!!!!!!!!:band:

Its not music its just noise!

Bloody hell if you're going to make generalisations about an entire genre don't base it off of Kid Rock!

yes point taken but there is no talent involved in stealing classics and rebranding them. i look back to the 70s and 80s and there was so much talent on both sides of the atlantic now there is simply none carrying the torch of rock and metal

There are a few talented bands around...you just haven't found them or can't recognize what's good.

Maybe you should wait for Rolling Stone to pick a couple of them out for you in another 20 years or wait for a band in the future to cite them as influences.

Yeah, it all sucks. **** modern rock!

I don't see what the problem is really. No matter the year or decade, there has always been great rock being done somewhere, even if they are outnumbered by a great many talentless bands. Also, while this is just my opinion, I don't think you can't say "modern rock" is getting worse when you lack the incentive to look around places like AllMusicGuide, MySpace, lastfm, progarchives.com, etc. There's more to the current music world than what you hear on the radio, your hipster friend tell you to listen to, or what you read in sub-par magazines like Rolling Stone or NME.

Secondly, most commerical rock backed by big-money labels has sucked since the 60's (though not to the rediculous degree we see now), and even those who supposedly miss the "good old days" haven't the faintest clue about all the truly great music they were missing out on anyway.

The Unfan: Nice choices dude!

It's just you.

And why did you choose to cite two bands from the 90s as your examples of "modern rock"?

i don't think it's fair to make the generalisation based on a few crappy bands....or even just on superficial details....yes, Slipknot conceal their faces, but not in the same way as kiss necessarily....the only member of slipknot who's face can be even compared to Kiss would be Joey (the drummer) all of the others have really unique, abstract masks which i don't think you can really liken to anyone else, because nobody else has them....

I do agree though (bar the slipknot remark!!) in regards to the s**t they cover on supposed 'rock' networks like kerrang, metalhammer magazine (bad times!) etc etc nowadays, you'd be forgiven for thinking rock music has gone irretrievably down the pan....it's really disheartening to see bands like "Kids in glass houses" and "Scouting for girls" being marketed as 'the new rock'....ON KERRANG?! Jesus, where did all the metal go?! ;_;

And kidrock....should we even be calling him rock music? He's a joke, i really don't think any of his stuff can be classed as "rock"....there's no 'rock' in it....

But yes. i fear we are losing our rock music these days...tragically :(

I had assumed that it was common knowledge that modern mainstream rock has gone down the crapper in terms of general standards. We don't need to look much further beyond the sort of stuff that makes the top 20 in order to verify this as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

So no, it's not just you. As a fan of rock music, I fully concur with your sentiments.

No comment on Metal, though. I'm not too sure what to think about modern metal. There's too much variety to make any very sweeping statements, unlike in the case of mainstream rock.

It's simple really. There's all these people makin all these kids and all these lil kids are goin ape sh!t over all these new bands that just put out ballads and love songs, or the i'm crying cause she left me, and i hate my life i'm gonna cut my wrist songs and thats what ends up becoming "modern" rock...i hate it but thats why i just listen to mainly older stuff haha. Give me some Incubus, Sublime, old metalica, I'm good for a while haha.

Sounds like the same subject matter people have been writing pop songs about for as long as there have been pop songs.

Wow, what an original complaint. Good thing you made a thread about it.

^ I did, too.


How does Slipknot's masks resemble anything about Kiss?

My point exactly.

Most people think it is because both bands main goal was to use the masks to intimidate. The truth, however, is that Slipknot mostly uses the masks to conceal their identity.

Then why were you talking about new bands doing specifically.

If someone is complaining about modern rock or modern metal being bad, then they haven't looked hard enough. Its as simple as that.

didn't this exact topic get done to death (like 15 pages worth or none sense) last week?

it's unpossible!!! a band as a direct reflection of their influences.... influences who had far reaching mainstream appeal to boot.... BLASPHEMY!

**** ALL Y'ALL BITCHES IT'S TIME FOR EVERYONE TO GO BACK TO LISTENING TO WHAT WAS AWESOME WHEN I WAS 14. ME!!!! IT'S ALL ABOUT MYyyyy ****ING TASTE. KISS MY EGO'S ASS ALREADY YOU ****S! I KNOW WHAT THE REALLY REAL FOR REAL GOOD **** IS!!! I'VE KNOWN IT FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS!!!! WHY AREN'T YOU STUPID ****ING KIDS LISTENING TO MEeeeee!??!?!?!!!!!

You're scaring me man. :D

what can i say, i had a mike patton moment hahahaha

mr dave thanks for the listen and feed back...

I agree what i have been told in so many threads just like this one... Not to sound like an ass but modern rock is just that. Just like it did while you were growing up and just like it will when this gen grows up.

Obviously we have moved on from Gto's and mullets and all that, as well as from flannel and grunge (my favorite) to a mixture of all the different types combined. For you to complain unfourtunatly means that either you were brought up on the older sound or you are growing up. Basically stated your not considered in the modern demographics plan. Its like a good picture brother it stays with you. Nobody is making you change but your ears might bleed for a while during this gens taste. Simply put this happens to everyone

Just when i thought tht post couldn't get any more lolrific.

^^ agreed

Popular music has no doubt been taken over by **** bands like nickleback. God i hate nickleback

holy crap you mean i got through :p:

seriously i didn't mean to single you out in the last thread. i still love all my soundgarden cds (and i do have all of them). it's just something we all have to go through as we move beyond the mainstream.

being old is way cooler than being cool hehe

It’s the same thing in France. We have a lot of kids rocks bands that grow like mushrooms since a couple of years. Lyrics are often enough crappy and/or commonplace, but no more no less than lots of lyrics write in the 60's that are standards nowadays. I imagine that among all this bands, there are some potential diamonds.

*bows to the master*

Let's hope so. New sounds are hard to come by now a days.

Another same old argument thread reaching it's end.